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GM working on 200-mile electric car, exec says
Associated Press ^ | Sep 16, 2013 4:57 PM EDT | Tom Krisher

Posted on 09/16/2013 8:16:43 PM PDT by Olog-hai

As automakers race to make cheaper electric cars with greater battery range, General Motors is working on one that can go 200 miles per charge at a cost of about $30,000, a top company executive said.

Vice President of Global Product Development Doug Parks wouldn’t say when or if such a car will be built, however. …

The 200-mile car would cost about the same as the current Volt, and it would match the range and be far cheaper than Tesla Motors’ $71,000, all-electric Model S. The Model S can go up to 265 miles on a single charge. …

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KEYWORDS: 200miles; electriccar; gm; governmentmotors
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To: Olog-hai
Until an electric car can be produced that is BETTER IN EVERY WAY to gasoline powered cars, I will not waste my time listening.

None of this trade-off BS. BETTER IN EVERY WAY!

21 posted on 09/16/2013 9:09:30 PM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: Olog-hai

Honda is now selling on a limited basis a fuel cell technology car that has a 240 mile range. The car is the Honda FCX Clarity. According to the website...
http://automobiles.honda.com/fcx-clarity/

“About 200 vehicles will be leased over the next three years, primarily in Southern California.”

More here about them.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2013/07/02/fuel-cell-cars-back-in-the-limelight-as-gm-honda-team-up-on-mission-to-attack-costs/

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/transportation/2013/08/hydrogen_fuel_cell_cars_honda_s_clarity_and_toyota_models_use_zero_emission.html

http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center-article_218/

http://www.dailytech.com/GM+Honda+Team+Up+for+Fuel+Cell+Vehicle+Technology/article31884.htm


22 posted on 09/16/2013 9:10:52 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s more than just “some.”


23 posted on 09/16/2013 9:11:21 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: Olog-hai

200 miles per charge, EEYUP. So it would only take me 3 or 4 days to get from SoCal to my farm instead of the regular 12 hours huh.


24 posted on 09/16/2013 9:20:24 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Can I pre-order a copy of your 100 million copy best seller?
Love to add it to my library.


25 posted on 09/16/2013 9:23:32 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: USNBandit

picking up, or dropping off?


26 posted on 09/16/2013 9:26:29 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: 5th MEB

It’s a matched set. Welded together.


27 posted on 09/16/2013 9:33:23 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Jim from C-Town

The ultra wealthy and those that “really care” about the environment. Makes me want to go crank up the hemi and let it run in the driveway for about 4 hours. My grass and trees and shrubs will love me for it. They “think” (see Boulder CO granting right to life to these items) it’s yummy.


28 posted on 09/16/2013 9:34:57 PM PDT by rktman (Inergalactic background checks? King hussein you're first up.)
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To: Olog-hai

people here are missing the point,

as far as energy delivered to the wheels,

gasoline cost four to ten times as much
as electricity


29 posted on 09/16/2013 9:45:02 PM PDT by RockyTx
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To: RockyTx

“people here are missing the point,

as far as energy delivered to the wheels,

gasoline cost four to ten times as much
as electricity”

You must price your steaks based on the cost of a bottle of A-1.

I’ll bet you probably buy cars based on brand like, oh say a Honda, and never really discover the true cost of ownership when compared to other reliable cars that cost half as much and save twice as much... merely because of “trade in value”.

Keep up the “good work”.


30 posted on 09/16/2013 10:28:32 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
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To: FreedomStar3028

200 miles, and in-between you plug it in 50 times. Another idiotic libtard idea.


31 posted on 09/16/2013 10:29:51 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

I’m also “working” on a 3000 mile car that runs on bullsh*t. I will try to get that imaginary car close to any DNC convention to power it.


32 posted on 09/16/2013 10:31:14 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: max americana
I will try to get that imaginary car close to any DNC convention to power it.

You can get plenty from any RNC Convention as well.

33 posted on 09/16/2013 10:33:51 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: RockyTx
gasoline cost four to ten times as much as electricity

It takes me three minutes to fill my gasoline tank, which gives me 400 miles city driving. It would take me four hours to charge an electric car on a 240 volt line (12 hours on a 120).

Time is money. Do the math.

34 posted on 09/16/2013 10:40:02 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: wku man
Yup...show me an electric pickup that gets the same performance as my F-150 4x4, with the same off-road capabilities, costs the same or less to maintain, has a 400-mile per charge range, recharges as quickly as a fill-up, doesn't crap out in the cold weather, and costs the same or less than other conventional pickups, and I'd consider it. Oh yeah, and isn't heavily subsidized on the backs of the 53%.

Produce such a machine and you'll be the richest man in the world.

35 posted on 09/16/2013 10:45:39 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: Standing Wolf

“Yep. I’ve never understood why some of the worst ideas, (Marxism, for example, and electric cars,) are the most persistent.”

Maybe because the big oil companies have bought up the patents and then stored them in a dark warehouse in the desert.

Guess that doesn’t work too well for Marxism.

So maybe they’re both just bad ideas.


36 posted on 09/16/2013 10:52:57 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Up Yours Marxists

wrong.

I don’t like my money going to Exxon or OPEC.


37 posted on 09/16/2013 11:25:35 PM PDT by RockyTx
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To: ModelBreaker

As for the persistence of the idea of an electric car,I think it’s to satisfy environmentalist wackos’ concern for the pollution (ignoring the fact that electricity largely comes form coal-fed power plants) and the auto manufacturers’ attempt to get out from under ever-more-onerous fuel-economy regulations applied to gasoline-powered vehicles.


38 posted on 09/17/2013 2:28:37 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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To: Olog-hai

Is 200 miles the lifetime range of the batteries?


39 posted on 09/17/2013 2:34:48 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (To stay calm during these tumultuous times, I take Damitol. Ask your Doctor if it's right for you.)
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To: Olog-hai

Bet they are looking for a 200 mile hill.


40 posted on 09/17/2013 3:36:19 AM PDT by hadaclueonce (dont worry about Mexico, put the fence around kalifornia.)
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